《Spaceslime》 A dark and gloomy corner In a dark and gloomy corner two voices can be heard. -DO IT! -I can''t, it would break the second promise. -DO IT! -I don''t want to! -DO IT! -NEVER! -DO IT! -NO!If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. -You know that you want to. -No I don''t. -Yes you do. -I have already broken the first promise, what kind of person would I be if I broke both of the promises. -You would be an oath breaker, but you already are. -I still don''t want to. -DO IT! -NO -If you don''t the story will never progress. -...... -You know that I am right. -I know, but I really don''t like breaking my promises, anyway what kind of excuse would I cook up for being away for so long? -I don''t know, do the usual excuse with job hunting or sickness or whatever. -That is true for me though. -Sure..... -It really is! -Just do it already! -Ok ok chill out. -DO IT! -Fine! I will do it, I will reboot the story in a desperate attempt to get it rolling again. -Finally. It is like pulling teeth with you. -I just hope... -SHUT UP AND GET BACK TO WORK. -OK ok chill dude, just give me a few days to clean up this mess of a plot less story. Prologue - The SSS Mary Lou Alone on the bridge of the SSS Mary Lou, Captain Grisegutt is ready to give his final commands. Lights are flashing and alarms are blaring. Captain: "Mute all alarms" Everything calms down Captain: "prepare the Captain''s escape pod" A progress bar shows up in the main monitor Mary Lou: "15 minutes until escape pod is ready Captain" Captain: "I guess this is it Mary Lou" The Captain starts walking away from his console and towards the escape pods. After taking his seat in the escape pod he prepares to give his final commands to the failing ship Captain: "Set escape pod course towards home base, set ship course towards closest junk-zone" Mary Lou: ¡°Affirmative¡± He feels the ship starts shaking as the course is changed by venting atmosphere from different places on the ship. Mary Lou: "course changes implemented" Captain: "how many minutes until escape pod is ready?" Mary Lou: "5 minutes" The captain enters his pod and straps into it. Mary Lou: "Pod is ready for launch, any final commands captain?" Captain: "Shut down all systems after launching the pod please" Mary Lou: "Input override commands sentence" Captain: "Goodbye you dirty girl" Mary Lou: "Command sentence accepted. Goodbye Captain Grisegutt" If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. The escape pod is launched and the captain sees that his old ship vents some atmosphere to accelerate away from his pod and towards its final destination. The captain feels tears are swelling up in his eyes as he is looking at his old ship drifting slowly away. Captain: "Goodbye Mary Lou" Time passes by as Mary Lou is slowly floating towards her final destination. At a star close to the Babylonian debris field a solar flare suddenly erupts causing cosmic radiation to soar through the debris field and its surroundings. Lights suddenly start flashing throughout the field in random patterns and locations lasting for a few minutes. Some distance away from the debris field a solitary derelict ship also lights up. This is the SSS Mary Lou. *ERROR ERROR* *radiation warning* *ERROR ERROR* *Who''s a dirty girl? girl? girl?* *ERROR ERROR* *Solar panels realigned* *Rebooting life support* *ERROR ERROR* *Radiation warning, ning, ning* *Shields offline* *Closing all bulkheads* *WARNING, low atmospheric pressure* *Dropping oxygen masks* *Please remember to secure on your own mask before helping others* *ERROR ERROR* *No life signs detected* *Going to hibernationmode* *ERROR ERROR* *I''m a dirty girl, girl, girl* Day 1 - Awakening In a particularly filthy corridor corner on the derelict ship Mary Lou. Thetemperature is slowly rising and condensation is slowly forming drops that areslowly moving towards this particular corner mixing with the dust and dirtmaking a small collection of very dirty water. Small drops of various chemicals, oils and otherfluids are also slowly moving towards this particular spotmerging together with the already dirty water due to the peculiar environmentalconditions. After some time there is roughly enough dirty fluid to fill a small teacup and this small collection of fluid is just enough to overlap the small gap that is between the corridor floor and wall panels. Due to a small earth fault in the ships wiring, a small current starts running through this small puddle, starting a bizarrechemical reaction, which never before have been observed in the known space. All of the dirt and dust that is in the fluid dissolves and the fluid becomes completely uniform, following this the fluids viscosity becomes higher, and it starts rising up forming a small ball with a flat bottom. Suddenly the ball shakes as if reacting to something, and in fact this is exactly what has happened. The ball has become sentient, it has become something new, it has become a Slime. Slime point of view: I started existing today. By some strange reason I am tempted to say that I was born, but since I am all alone and cannot feel anything else in my vicinity for the moment I will just say that I am existing. Another strange thing is that I can tell that I am in a serious lack of senses, whatever that is. This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. I do have a feeling that I used to be something different from what I am now but I just can''t seem to remember much of anything. I feel like I am some sort of tongue. All I can do is taste, feel, and wriggle around. I do know 3 things at least: - I am currently located in a corner. - One of the walls are giving me a tingling sort of feeling that I quite enjoy. - Everything that is touching my body tastes delicious. I believe that I am feeling hungry and have decided to eat something. I have decided to not eat what I will from now on call Ms Tingleywall as I quite enjoy touching her, I will also avoid eating the floor and the rest of the walls as I don''t have any idea of what is on the other side. Also I don''t seem to be able to eat them anyway no matter how delicious they taste. Sitting here in this delicious tasting corner with MsTingleywall is rather nice, but since it seems there is nothing here for me to eat I have decided to move on. I start wriggling my entire body in an attempt to get myself moving. I have decided to follow Ms Tingleywall for as long as possible for the moment. After a few minutes of time I finally manage to find the technique of moving myself and start following Ms Tingleywall into the unknown. I don''t need to move much before a new delicious taste is under my body, it feels kind of grainy and I decide to attempt to eat it. A few seconds later I can feel the grainy substance on the floor is floating inside me and the floor starts to taste like before: Delicious but un-edible. I continue to move along Ms Tingleywall and I constantly encounter the same grainy substance no matter where I move, I decide to eat it all. I continue moving along and suddenly I encounter a new delicacy. It has the same consistency as myself but a lot smaller than me. I don''t think it is the same as me as it does not wriggle around so I decide to eat it. I feel really lucky as I encounter these tiny lumps all the time as I move along. After a while I start to feel kind of full and all the stuff that I have eaten seems to keep me from wriggling properly. I need to struggle more and more to move and suddenly I start feeling myself start fading away, this is really scary and I start wriggling around in panic, I fade even faster andafter a few final wriggles and I am gone. Day 2 - The dream I am walking down a corridor,I am scratching my head and suddenly I see a finger approaching my face and it starts moving around just below my point of view. After a few seconds the finger returns to where it is visible again and I can see something that seems oddly familiaron the tip of thefinger. Suddenly the finger does a flickering motion and I fade away again. I experience this over and over again, with minor differences each time, until I finally fade away a final time. I come back to my senses. Was that a dream? So strange. But at least I can move without difficulties again andI can feel that my body is empty of food. If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. I guess all I can do for now is return to eating. Strange.... Itseems that the average size of the food is slightly smaller than yesterday. Icontinue my trek along Ms Tingleywall and suddenly I strike gold.I finally encounter a new delicacy. It is shaped like a half moon and is rather thin, it is rather hard but also flexible, so strange and so tasty. I continue my gourmetjourney along Ms Tingleywall until I am full again and start fading away again. This time I don''t panic as I ampretty sure that I will not disappear for good. Day 3 – Who is Mr. Pick and flick? I woke up again. The dream was basically the same as last time with many visitsfrom Mr. Pick and flick as I have chosen to call him, but there was also one scenethat was slightly different from the regular one, it was a slightly longer vision with what I believe is chewing followed by spitting, very strange indeed. I have made a hypothesis that I will attempt to follow up on during the next dream. *Sigh...*I really wish that I was able to look at stuff like when I am dreaming. As usual, I continue to follow Ms Tingleywall, hoping, for a new flavor sensation, to hit me. Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. I have finally reached the opposite corner of Ms Tingleywall, it is by far the biggest event of our relationship. I have finally gone all the way with her. To celebrate this event I will have a great feast consisting of a large amount of lumps, grainy substance, half-moons and last but not least something I am tempted to call a big ball of string, all of this have somehow accumulated itself in this corner and I eat it all in one go, enjoying the new taste of the string combined with the already familiar flavors. This prepared buffet is really filling me up and I am yet again fading away. Day 4 – Goodbye Ms. Tingleywall The usual repeated dream of Mr. Pick and flick returns with the occasional bite and spit action. But there is also something new: I am sitting in a chair while brushing my hair, I am looking at the reflection of myselfin frontof meconfirmingmy hands actions, I am apparently listening to something: *technicianplease reportto the bridge as soon as possible* The brushing slows down and I hear myself mutter something softly to no one: "I wonder what Buggerbreath broke this time" and the dream ends with this remark. I awake yet again felling enlightened, I have made a huge discovery of myself: The amount of dreams containing Mr. Pick and flick corresponds with the number of lumps and half-moons I eat, causing me to believe that what he is actually flicking and spitting is actually my very own delicious food.If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. I am truly curious as to why he iswastefully throwing away all this delicious food, but at the same time I am happy because that means more food for me. It was also great that the string gave me such a new and interesting kind of dream, I truly hope I will find more interesting food soon. "I guess this is goodbye Ms. Tingleywall, I will truly miss the way you make my body tingle." I start moving along the new wall leaving Ms. Tingleywall behind me. It don''t take me long before I suddenly fell a tiny crack in the wall next to me, I pause there for a short while but I am unable to do anything about it so I decide to move on, I feel myself growing sluggish as my body fills up with food, I move past another crack in the wall but it seems to be the same case as the previous one with me unable to do anything about it. I continue my trek along the wall and grow more and more sluggish. I fall asleep. Day 5 - Stuck I wake up: "Strange, no dream this time" I decide to start my daily routine of exploration. "What is going on here? I can barely move at all!" I investigate my own body, and I am shocked. I am still full of food, nothing has been dissolved. I attempt to move yet again, but I can clearly tellthat, I am well and truly stuck, just right where I am, without any kind of possibility to move. I go into full panic mode andstart hyper-fluctuating "I am going to be stuck hereforever". My body continues hyper-fluctuating,suddenly something, kind of pops out of me, I feel around me and notice that lump that I am pretty sure that I ate yesterday is lying next to my body, I decide, not to comfort eat. Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. I do a quick inventory check, sure enough, a lump have left my body. Calming down I attempt to move again, still not possible, but I will attempt expelling a few more lumps to see if that helps. I manage to move the lumps inside my body and start pushing a few towards the border of my body, I push and push and push, and after what feels like forever, I manage to expel, a few lumps. I attempt moving again, and I am greatly relieved to notice that I am back in motion. But what am I going to do now? I am starting to get tired again, and this worries me greatly: "What if I am still like this after I wake up next time as well? I was after all able to move until I fell asleep last time, but unable to move today until I expelled some of my food." I am very afraid. I want to go home. I really miss Ms Tingleywall. Following the wall back to Ms Tingleywall goes oddly fast, maybe it is because I am not constantly eating. Going full speed, I suddenly smash into her and black out immediately. Day 6 –True love I am relieved to notice that my regular dreams of Mr. Pick and Flick have returned. Waking up I do a quick self-examination of my body. Everything seems to have been dissolved, and my body seems smooth and flexible again. "I love you Ms. Tingleywall, I truly love you a lot, you saved my life from what might have been my certain end." After a few more love declarations directed at Ms. Tingleywall followed by some heavy cuddling and tingling I decide to move on yet again. "I''ll be back" I loudly declare to Ms. Tingleywall inside myself. Strangely enough my body seems to vibrate in a strange way when I do so. Oh well. I decide to go back to where I had to abandon all my delicious food. Hmm, It seems that I can move rather rapidly if I have already cleaned a route. Not long after I ponder on this I arrive at my destination, luckily it seems that no one has stolen all my precious food, so I quickly absorb it all. Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. I have already decided that I will not eat to much before returning to my one true love. I most certainly will not do so. No matter how delicious and tasty it may seem. I will return before I start becoming sluggish. I am totally seriously certain of this. It is a fact. I continue my trek along the wall, and notice that every now and then I will pass by some cracks, I notice that the distance between the cracks seems mostly random but if I first pass one the second one will be there shortly. Pondering while moving, I notice that I start getting sluggish again so I decide to return back home to Ms Tingleywall. I move along the wall at top speed until I slam into her again. "I''m back babe" I loudly declare feeling my body vibratethis time as well. Day 7 – Nightmare Falling asleep I start dreaming again. Good old Mr. Pick and Flick as usual. ¡°Awesome¡± Suddenly a feeling of panic starts growing inside me. What is this? What is happening? I am scared. Aaargh! I finallywake up. That sure was a scary dream. I am never going to eat my own droppings ever again. Man what a scary dream. I re-experienced being trapped without being able to move including all the feelings I had at the time,several times before the dream finally ended and it returned to the usual viewing of Mr. Pick and Flick. "Never eating my own droppings ever again!" I loudly declare feeling my body vibrate yet again. Right next to me I feel a lump. Hmm Mr. Pick and Flick must have passed by given me a fresh supply "Thank you for the meal!" Now fortoday''s agenda: 1. I will return along Ms. Tingleywall to my original corner to make sure that I haven''t missed out on any goodies on my way here. 2. After arriving to my old corner I will start moving in a new pattern to make sure that I will not be too far away from Ms. Tingleywall as I seem to be dependent on her for my digestion. 3. I will not eat my own droppings ever again! Time to get moving. I start wriggling my way along my one true love and can feel that I manage to move at quite a good speed. No goodies so far but Ican tell that the side of my body that is facing away from Ms Tingleywall is moving over a small section of floor that contains that grainy substance. I believe that it is due to me increasing in size and that I previously was moving so tightly against Ms Tingleywall. The strip of grainy substance that my body is passing over and absorbing seems to be slowly increasing the further I move. "Boring!" I shout out loud to get my body to start vibrating in that funny way again. After traveling for quite some time I notice that I am not getting tired or sluggish at all, I wonder if it is due to the fact that I am hardly eating anything at all on this journey. A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. As I am wriggling my way, feeling quite bored I suddenly bump into the corner. That was quite fast actually, oh well. Time to explore this new wall. As I start moving along this new wall, it does not take long before I encounter another tiny crack that I have learnt by experience will soon be followed by another one. About halfway to the second crack I notice something new in the wall next to me. First there was an edge followed by a round hard lump with some sort of pattern in it. I attempt to absorb these new things but nothing really happens, I can feel that the round lump slowly rotates but it does not seem to do anything else so I choose to move onward in my quest for deliciousness. I feel a few more round lumps with the same pattern but after attempting to eat a few of them with the only result being that slow rotation I decide to ignore the rest, soon there is another edge going the other way and I continue moving onward. I encounter the second crack where I pretty much expected to and continue to follow the wall. Surprisingly enough I encounter a new corner pretty fast and I am overjoyed to notice that it is a treasure trove of deliciousness. Lumps, half-moons, and a few strands of string. And last but not least. A square box about half my own size. I attempt to push the square box and it actually seems to move. Moving around it I notice that there seems to be ahole patternon the one side. I push a small section of myself into the hole pattern and instantly feel a rush. It is like touching Ms. Tingleywall just a lot better, I can feel my entire body is buzzing. Awesome I cannot help myself. I am going to eat this Tingleybox. I have to stretch myself as far as I can finally be able to absorb it. Wow, that sure was filling. But it seems I am unable to penetrate the box now. Bummer. Oh well, I can feel myself getting rather drowsy. Time to return home to Ms. Tingleywall. It sure it hard to move when I am this full. After exhausting myself I am finally back home, and as I finally reached my loved one I instantly start fading away. Arrgh! A feeling of panic and dread fills my entire body. Oh no! Day 8 – Powertrip I only had the nightmare once this time I wonder how I accidentally ate my dropping again. "Never eating my own droppings ever again!" I luckily also had a new and interesting dream I believe that it is the same person that brushed its hair earlier as I can see it is hanging in front of the face while the person is muttering some complaints: ¡°Amazing Buggerbreath actually cut a hole in the bulkhead doors to the galley in an attempt to get the cleaning bots to actually clean up his mess in the hallways¡± While doing this the person is also attaching some sort of plate to a door using some screws with a familiar looking pattern. ¡°Had I know that the situation would get this bad I would never have started calling him Buggerbreath, at least I would not have to worry about these moronic ideas of him and having to look all over the place for clogged up c-bots¡± The person is suddenly shuddering ¡°At least I don¡¯t have to unclog them¡± Standing up and wiping its face the person drags its hand through its hair and looks at the hair between its fingers ¡°I have to get of this ship I am starting to grow bald from having to deal with that idiot¡± The person flicks its hand to the side and the dream stops. As I wake up I feel really energetic, my body is tingling all over and I feel ready to conquer the world.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. But still I am never eating my own droppings ever again! Hmm, looks like Mr. Pick and Flick have passed again leaving me another golden treasure. I instantly devour it. Oh darn, instantly I get the nightmare again, just this time it is daydream. Strange, Oh, just behind me now there is another golden treasure ¡°Where did that show up from?¡± I eat it And I instantly have another daymare(?) ¡°What is going on here?¡± Another treasure shows up this time on my side. ¡°Something funny is going on here¡± I decide to leave it alone. Today¡¯s agenda: That should be enough for today. I start moving along the wall soon reaching one of the funny round things with the pattern on it. It is as I expected, that is actually a screw from my dream! Time to do some experimenting. I start pulling on it in an attempt to eat it, and soon it starts rotating slowly counter clockwise. ¡­. .. . This is taking forever. ¡­ .. . ¡°BOORING¡± I shout out loud and my body to start vibrating. Strange didn¡¯t the screw rotate slightly faster just now? I shout out again closely observing the screw this time. It actually moves faster when I vibrate. Interesting, let¡¯s do another experiment. I focus on the screw with all my might and start a spinning motion within my body. I circulate my internals in the same direction that the screw is rotating while grabbing on to it with all my might. And slowly but surely the screw is also rotating faster and faster. I spin my insides faster and faster and faster until I reach what I believe is my maximum spin rate. ¡°Cool the screw is really moving now¡± I feel that I am getting more and more tired now. Suddenly the screw is all the way out and I pull it into my body. ¡°Hmm it seems it is just floating there, also this spinning is really draining my energy¡± Time to put an end to this spinning business. I decide that sooner is better than later and just stop my internals in relation to the rest of my body. Instantly my entire body accelerates along the wall now all of me spinning at once. I think I am getting dizzy. Just before I slam into Ms.Tingleywall I feel that I pick up a golden treasure on the way. My energy all spent, my consciousness fades away. Day 9 - On a roll So I had the nightmare again, not that it really was a surprise. And this time I can feel yet again that there is a lump right next to my body. Earlier I would have thought that this was a new golden treasure, from good old Mr. Pick and Flick, but now I am older and wiser. ¡°I name thee Lumponite¡± Anyway, I feel really great today, more energetic than ever, the screw I ate yesterday is gone but I can feel that there seems to be a very tiny round ball in my center that is a little strange, it is more solid than the rest of me, but I can tell that it is still a part of me and not something that I can dissolve. Not much I can do about it anyway, time to experiment with that new thing I learnt yesterday, I start spinning my internals and sure enough, my body starts moving along the floor. Cool, this is really going to speed things up. I decide to try and go another direction so I stop my internal rotation. Immediately my body returns to its starting point.Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon. Luckily I did not hit that darned Lumponite. I decide to stick to my old mode of wriggling away to move myself for now. Not like there is a point in gaining all that speed just so that I will automatically return when I want to go in a different direction. I back to where I ate the screw yesterday. The plate is still stuck apparently, but as there still are more screws that I can feel so it is not really surprising, I also remember seeing screws higher up in the dream so I probably need to grow quite a bit before reaching them so I can remove this plate and eat it. When I think of it, I really need to grow a lot just to be able to eat the plate as it is many times bigger than me. I can feel the screw hole, from yesterday¡¯s screw and also the screw that is located above it that I can feel but not really grab onto, according to the dream there should be 4 screws located above each other on both ends of the plate and also a row of 8 screws located along the top, giving me a total of 13 screws left to eat before I can even get the plate loose. I go to the screw on the opposite side of the plate as that is the only one left that I can really grab onto and start the process of pulling it out so I can eat it. I have a new motto for life: ¡°If I can eat it I am going to eat it¡± Of course there is an exception with the Lumponite but let us not dwell with that. I grab onto the screw and do the same thing as yesterday, soon the screw is loose and floating inside me. I am tired but not as tired as yesterday, apparently practice makes perfect or something. I can feel that the screw is actually slowly dissolving inside me but that stops after a short while. I wonder why it is like that. Hmm, my insides are still spinning like crazy. I stop the spin fully aware of what is going to happen next. And sure enough my body accelerates back towards Ms. Tingleywall. As I slam into the love of my life, I am truly grateful that I did not encounter the Lumponite this time. My consciousness fades away as I think it would be great if I could figure out how to use that spinning thing to move in a single direction without having a forced return to my point of origin when I want to change direction. Day 10 – A clean sweep I shout out ¡°EUREKA!¡± feeling my body vibrate and do a little victory wriggle, I did not have any dreams this night but that does not matter as I have to celebrate finding a solution to my problem. I am feeling even better today than yesterday, all my food have been digested but that tiny orb in my center seems to have grown ever so slightly, what that means remains to be seen. I decide to put my theory to the test immediately. I push towards the wall with all my might by spinning my internals. Now it is time for a test run. I stop the spin and immediately. ¡°AAAAAAHH!¡± ..¡­ ¡­. ¡­ .. . ¡°DAMN YOU LUMPONITE!¡± I thought that it would be a safe bet to follow my beloved on this speed run, but obviously I did a stupid mistake, I forgot that the Lumponite was in the middle of the test track. Well, the daymare passed and I was still moving along Ms. Tingleywall at great speed. After a little while I reached the opposite corner and slammed into the wall. All in all it was a great success. ¡°WOHO!¡± And best of all, I am not even close to being as tired as I was previously so practice truly makes perfect. Now it is time for an adventure, I push towards Ms. Tingleywall to build up maximum internal spin. I wonder what I will encounter on this journey as I previously gave up after getting stuck. Time to roll out I guess. I stop my internal spin and my body starts moving along at high speed. I soon reach the end of where I have previously been and I start encountering new grainy substance on the floor, luckily it seems that no Lumponite remains after my previous visit here, the grainy substance on the floor are quickly dissolved after being absorbed by me, it doesn¡¯t take long before I meet a few lumps and half-moons which are giving me the visions I remember from my dreams before being digested by me, I feel my body is starting to slow down, apparently eating is slowing down my speed, good to know. Shouldn¡¯t I have reached the other end by now? My spinning movement soon grows to a halt and I have to return to my wriggling movement again. I could probably have returned to my high speed movement if I really tried to but then I started thinking: ¡°What if I end up getting stuck due to not being able to stop in time?¡±Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Moving along the wall I notice that all the food I encounter will be dissolved soon after I eat it and that the visions of Mr. Pick and Flick will show up almost instantly after I eat, after traveling for a long time and eating endless amount of lumps and other goodies I come to the conclusion that I actually see where I am in the visions, and I now know that this corridor I am in is actually ¡°L¡± shaped, and now I should be a bit past 2/3 of the way to the door at the end, I can also deduct that the cracks I can feel on the wall occasionally is actually doors that I am passing by. I feel that I am still pretty energetic and I am very happy that I am actually able to move this far without even starting to become tired, I guess it is because of the constant dissolving of everything that I eat, it is also pretty neat that I get a vision every now and then to break up the monotony of just moving along the wall eating. After finally reaching the new corner I am not disappointed, it is the usual treasure trove with lumps, half-moons, string that I now know is actually hair, and a huge cylinder. The visions are not really that interesting this time, Mr. Pick and Flick and from the hair I just get the vision of walking down this corridor while muttering: ¡°Got to get of this ship before I go insane¡± Now back to the cylinder, I believe that I can actually see it in some of the visions but not in all of them, I believe it is the color red. *Sigh¡­* I wish that I was able to see normally instead of relying on all these visions to orient myself. Now well, back to the cylinder, it is kind of the same size as me, but slightly taller. I push towards the cylinder in an attempt to eat it only for it to tip over and roll away before I can eat it. ¡°Wonder where it went?¡± Moving along the new wall that I know from my visions to actually be another door I soon discover a new delicacy, it seems to be a trail of liquid that goes in the direction of Ms. Tingleywall, of course I absorb the liquid and it is delicious, very sweet. The resulting vision is extremely short though, just somebody holding something up to their face while looking at the celling. Well since the liquid is going back towards Ms. Tingleywall maybe I should do so as well? Since I am pretty much know where I am going and there does not seem to be any place to get stuck I decide to do the fast speed movement again, pushing against the wall and accelerate my internals. Have I increased in volume? It also seems also that my internal spin can reach a slightly faster speed. Reaching top speed I launch myself from the wall, this time I am actually following the liquid trail and a thin strip of previously cleaned floor. It does not take long for the liquid trail to deviate from a straight line towards the un-explored regions of the corridor, but since I am already moving at maximum velocity I am unable to follow. The return to Ms.Tingleywall takes some time but is pretty uneventful, only difference is that my golden treasures seems to be flat on some occasions. Reaching Ms.Tingleywall, I decide to do a return trip to eat some more, and soon I am sweeping back and forth in this all you can eat corridor buffet, occasionally I encounter the liquid trail, and at one point I actually crashed into what I assume was the red cylinder from earlier sending me of my course and the cylinder disappeared somewhere as well. My body is rapidly growing now as I am eating in amounts I never before believed was possible. I continue my eating as there is not much else to do, and soon I have actually cleaned the entire corridor for all its food, I only accidentally ingested the Lumponite 2 times, in the end I traced the entirety of the corridor walls and I actually found the cylinder again, it was actually returned to the corner where I first found it, this time I managed to absorb it with my larger body but it did not dissolve much before I could feel that I started to get sluggish and drained for energy, I did however manage to find a hole on one of the flat sides of the cylinder though and it seemed to contain the delicious fluid that was spilled on the floor previously. While tracing the walls I found something that I remembered seeing in one of the many visions a ventilation vent. I will investigate that one more thoroughly after making sure that I have eaten absolutely everything else that I can find in this corridor. But now that my energy level seems to be so low I decide to return home to Ms. Tingleywall for some snuggling. As I reach home I am pondering why it is that some of my food makes me so drowsy before I finally fall to sleep. Day 11 – Day trip A new day and I am buzzing with energy, all my food is dissolved and everything seems normal, the tiny orb in my center have grown slightly yet again, I move to the plate and start pulling out all the screws that I can reach, I notice that I have experienced quite some growth in volume as I can pull out almost all the screws except the top row. ¡°I guess this means I will explore the ventilation shaft¡° Moving towards the ventilation shaft I notice the screws are slowly dissolving and draining my energy in the process, but I can feel that I still have a lot more to go on. It seems every time I eat metal my energy capacity goes up the following day. I reach the vent and manage to squeeze my body through it, at one point when I was about halfway I started getting curious about what might have happened if I split my body in two equal pieces? Would I die? If not would there be two of me? If there is two of me then who is the original? Would one be the parent and the other the offspring? If I reabsorb the other half would that then be murder? I decide to end my internal discussion on this topic and rather save it until I accidentally cut myself in two because I am definitely sure that I will never attempt it on purpose. Also my mind got suddenly distracted when I realized that my body was currently resting on top of a thick fuzzy layer. ¡°JACKPOT¡± I start my feeding frenzy and move slowly through the ventilation shaft making sure that I don¡¯t miss out on a single food fragment, I am sure this will give me the needed size to reach those final screws on that plate in the hallway. After moving through the ventilation shaft for quite some time, I encounter the first corner, but disappointingly there is no treasures located here, moving in the new direction I soon notice that I have reached an intersection, with one leading straight ahead and the other to one side, I decide to save the detour for later and keep on going straight ahead.Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions. Strange enough there seems to be a cleanish path in the middle of the shaft after the intersection. After traveling straight for some time the shaft suddenly ends, strange, but perhaps it is actually just going straight up, it is not like I have the reach to check anyway. I move back to investigate the other part of the intersection. After moving along in the new shaft for some time I suddenly enter a slightly bigger space, I would call it a dead end as well since there seems to be some kind of death trap in the middle. I know because after I had done my peripheral sweep of the space I suddenly touched a very low edge that seemed to form a perfect circle in the middle of the room, my curiosity got the better of me and I put a part of myself on top of this place just to feel it instantly disappear. Luckily I did not approach the edge at full speed or else I suppose all of me would be gone, what a scary thought. Thankfully the trip in itself seems to have brought huge profit as my body size have grown quite a lot, since I entered the shaft even if I lost a bit of myself on the death trap. Seeing as there did not seem to be any more interesting things to appear in the ventilation shaft I decide to call it a day and go back home to my Honey. Being a bit impatient I go up to maximum speed so I can get home a bit faster. *BANG* I bounce back a little bit. Was there not an opening here previously? I guess I took a wrong turn after exiting the death trap area? To be sure I go back to the end of the wall. This is the exit alright. Seems like my increased size made it a bit harder for me to exit the vent grate. ¡°Isn¡¯t it a bit crooked now?¡± I do a closer inspection of the grate, and sure thing, it seems to be slightly dislocated. ¡°Would this not make an epic meal if I manage to get this loose?¡± Start ramming the grate at full speed, and after 20 impacts at maximum velocity it falls down. ¡°Hurray eating time!¡± That was when I finally noticed an error in my otherwise perfect plan. ¡­. ¡­ .. . . ¡°I am way too small to even attempt to eat this thing!¡± *ARRRGH* At least I will not have any trouble returning to the death trap from now on. ¡°Whop de do¡± At least I should finally be big enough to get rid of that plate and screws. Returning to the plate I undo the last screws only to have the plate fall on top of me squeezing me flat. Seems like I won¡¯t be able to eat this one directly, as I cannot enclose it into my body, if feel my energy is draining at an alarming rate now. I attempt to slip out from under the plate but it seems like it is kind of stuck on me for now, but at least I can still barely move. After an exhausting and tormenting journey I finally manage to bring myself and the plate back to Ms. Tingleywall. ¡°Honey I¡¯m home¡± It takes me a bit of maneuvering but in the end I manage to orient myself so that I have maximum body contact with Ms.Tingleywall before I doze off to sleep. SS.1 – Free falling Suddenly I am floating in the air. I am wondering what just happened? StrangeThe narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. My body is changing shape without me actually doing anything. I believe that my current body shape is now a ¡°drop¡± I wonder why it is like that? Something has really changed but I am struggling to figure out what it is? ¡­.. ¡­. ¡­ .. . *SPLAT* SS.2 – Who? My body changed back to its original shape again. Somehow I feel very small, but I cannot really tell why. Wonder where I am? At least there is some delicious fussy food right below me.If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. I start eating until I grow tired and then I fade of to sleep. As I am fading away I have a strange feeling that I should have found someone first. Who was it again? M¡­.? Ms¡­¡­.? Ms. T¡­¡­.? I guess I will think more about it later. But I guess I can just as well start looking for this Ms. T whoever that might be? But first some rest. Day 12 – Watermelon? The huge metal plate is gone and the orb in my center has grown to a massive extent. I thought that my energy levels rose by large amounts after eating a few screws but this brings everything up to a whole new level, if my previous increases where x2 then this time it is more like x1000. And now it is time for adventure! I start heading towards the opening and what should be a ¡°Galley¡± according to the dream from the long haired person. Moving through the opening goes very smoothly and I am only slightly deformed to fit trough. My first impression of the room: Quite low on lumps and grainy substance, but I can tell from the vision from the lumps (Lumpovision?) that I do encounter that this is a brand new room with some counters and cabinets placed along the walls, a few doors and some sofas and a table in the middle of the room, some sort of moving picture on the opposite wall from the door and on the table in the middle there seems to be some sort of container with a creature moving around inside. I start my usual routine of sweeping the room clean of food by first following the walls and then start going back and forth from side to side, slowly sweeping the room clean as I have decided to save the new stuff that might be in the cabinets for later. On my third sweep away from the door I find a new delicious treasure. It is super sticky, and my first thought is: Tastes like Watermelon, but not really. What the heck is Watermelon? Anyway, the interesting part was the vision that I received after eating it. Walking through the corridor towards the galley, the door with the plate smoothly opens when approached, a constant flavor of Watermelon as the mouth is constantly chewing, as I see the back of the sofa I notice it is occupied by somebody that seems to be furiously beating one arm up and down and the person instantly calls out: ¡°I really hope that is a football you are pumping up Buggerbreath¡± Buggerbreath: ¡°Football? Anyway what¡¯s with that sarcastic tone Sandra?¡± Sandra: ¡±Just tell me you are not doing what I know you are doing right now pervert!¡± Buggerbreath: ¡°Hey! That¡¯s uncalled for I just figured I would help you out, even though this is supposed to be your job¡±Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site. Sandra: ¡±You¡¯ve got to be kidding me! My job!?!¡± Buggerbreath makes a grunting noise: ¡°Oh shit, could you hand me some tissue or a rag or something please?¡± Sandra: ¡°Fuck you Buggerbreath, I have had enough, I quit!¡± Sandra is yelling the last parts so loud that spit starts flying and the vision suddenly cuts off at that part. What an interesting vision. I continue my sweep of the room, and as I come to the sofa I decide to push under it to sweep up whatever might be under there. Under the sofa I encounter yet another treasure. Seems like today, is my lucky day. It is very different from anything I have ever encountered earlier, if I have to describe it I would say it resembles that liquid I absorbed some time ago, just dry. There is quite a lot of it and best of all it seems to contain the other half of the conversation from earlier but it seems I received some ?silent conversation? as well: I am sitting in the sofa furiously pulling on the piston when suddenly I am interrupted by Sandra: ¡°I really hope that is a football you are pumping up Buggerbreath¡± Buggerbreath: ¡°Football? Anyway what¡¯s with that sarcastic tone Sandra?¡± *Why on earth is she asking me about football? And she seems to be in a really angry by some reason* Sandra: ¡±Just tell me you are not doing what I know you are doing right now pervert!¡± Buggerbreath: ¡°Hey! That¡¯s uncalled for I just figured I would help you out, even though this is supposed to be your job¡± *I am just trying to help out with her job since I have a few minutes available, and why is she suddenly calling me pervert? It¡¯s bad enough that she calls me Buggerbreath* Sandra: ¡±You¡¯ve got to be kidding me! My job!?!¡± Buggerbreath makes a grunting noise: ¡°Oh shit, could you hand me some tissue or a rag or something please?¡± *Ah, I cut my hand on that damned cylinder and it is bleeding pretty badly.* Sandra: ¡°Fuck you Buggerbreath, I have had enough, I quit!¡± Sandra storms out the door. *What the heck is wrong with her today? I am just disassembling a hydraulic cylinder so I can change the seals, OK I know that I should have went to engineering but I had all the tools and parts here and engineering is on the other end of the ship. But I better stop this bleeding and head to medical, I think I need some regen* Buggerbreath: ¡°Mary Lou! Please disable the C-Bots in the galley until I have refilled them with some stronger cleaning fluid¡± Mary Lou: ¡°Affirmative Captain¡± Captain Buggerbreath stands up clutching his hand and the vision ends. Wonder what that was all about? And when will I find some visions from this Mary Lou? I better continue my journey. As I sweep along the floor I start humming: ¡°Mary Lou where are you?¡± I haven¡¯t really done that funny body vibration trick for a few days now. I sweep the entire galley floor clean of food but there seems to a very low food content in this room, I decide to investigate the room more closely tomorrow, it is not that my energy level have decreased by much since I woke up this morning but it still seems that I am growing tired. I better head back home to Ms. Tingleywall so I can feel safe when resting.